He's done it again, this time Cormac has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road. What I really hope is that this leads to a greater readership for all his books. Here are two.

Moving on from the successful to the not so successful, I am immensely grateful to Danuta Kean for this helpful link on how to cope with rejection while maintaining dignity and courtesy.

I am very pleased to see that a poll in today's Bookseller on 'Who should run the library service?' has Tim Coates way out in front with 52% of the votes, followed a long way back by local authorities(21%), librarians (13%), the Government (11%) and the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the quango charged with leading the transformation of the library service) in last place with not a single vote. Not a resounding vote of confidence in the responsible institution.

And finally a plug for a book published not by Macmillan but written by a Macmillan employee. It is Eating the Sun: How plants power the planet by Oliver Morton who is the Chief News and Features Editor at Nature. I'm not sure how it's come about that he's being published by HarperCollins under the Fourth Estate imprint rather than by Macmillan Science but I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles and a good book is being published by a good publisher. Give it a go. It's a fascinating read.